I have been archiving my album collections with -aps 3.90.3 but, today I felt like testing an encoder with RazorLAME and 3.90.3 for 192kbps. The GUI seems good and same with speeds; also the sound is fine. Do people still use this app, is it good or crap?

Works just fine from here... it's simply a front end for Lame, no more and no less. It doesn't affect encode quality or speed at all.

I love RazorLame. (=

Yepp, razorlame is realy nice, one of the best frontends for lame, I'll say.
There's but one little thing about it... you can't tag your mp3s via razorlame, like you could with e.g. lamebatch (which doesn't have any further adwantages than that). This tag-issue realy bugs me
However, if you like razorlame, there is a prog called easylame. It got the same interface like razorlame, it's in fact more or less the same frontend, but is compiled with lame 3.90.3 and has allready intergrated presents . Very handy.

I prefer All2lame. It's even more simple to use than Razorlame and it has tag support.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/all2lame.htm

Nice but no thanks! the GUI sucks and the smilie is tacky

It works for me, no probs here .

I use foobar2000 with the CLI encoder, applies replaygain after encoding so no work afterwards, and why keep two programs when I can have one?

all2lame is "All TO LAME" just as it describes! All it does is force lame.exe to start with presets at least when RazorLAME is processing, it has a nice progress bar. If you use all2lame you might as well use EAC and ditch it; i just like RazorLAME cuz when im encoding it looks pretty

prefer all2lame or lamedropXPD 3.90.3 build here.

What's wrong with the All2lame GUI? You just just drop your .wavs on it and press encode.
When you want a new preset, you just type it at switches and press +. Easy!
Adding a preset with Razorlame takes a lot more time. First you have to go Lame options, then go to the expert tab type the switches, then you have to name the whole thing, and finally you can encode at these settings. A lot of work!

And what is with that sword icon!?

Even if you cannot tag your files in razorlame, I would still use it more happily than all2lame. a2l is a nice simple frontend though, but razorlame (or easylame, all the better : http://easylame.audiohq.de/) has a so much better style. that's at least my opinion in that matter. It gives you a nice histogram to your vbr or abr encodings, and you just seem to have more controll over your ripp. It's not overloaded with functions and buttons, but there's still enough there to make it look good.
If this frontend ever comes out with tag-support, that's deffiantly the frontend to die for (Well, it seems that Holger Dors don't have much time nower days, so development had slowed down somewhat... let's hope he get's unemployed, so he can work on it more )

Razorlame 1.15 and MP3 Tag Studio 3 do a fine job for me when converting single (e.g. recorded) wav files ... EAC ist unbeatable (IMO) with its integrated compression/tagging ... if only the lame DLL would be supported with the presets ...

I added a new thread in the general mp3 forum, concerning frontends. Give it a look, maybe this discusion could be held there. I will be happy for new adds and critic

I haven't used All2lame, but from the screenshot it doesn't look like you can change lame's priority, which is a pretty useful feature for me.

Nope, you can't change priority. But if you really want to, you can do that in the taskmanager

RazorLame is the only LAME front-end I use and I'm perfectly happy with it. As for the lack of ID3 tagging support, I don't mind since Tag&Rename handles that just fine.

Not for lamer's like me with '98

Love RAZOR

For the times when I do use MP3, I use lamedropXPd and Tag&Rename (because I still haven't figured out how to get lamedrop to tag my files correctly ).

Rob

Listening to: 'Jigue' from 'Try Anything Once' by 'Alan Parsons' on Media Center 9.0

That is exactly what I do.

Edit: spelling

WinLAME features a nice GUI, a thread priority setting, and the ability to do custom encoding settings quickly and without typing. In other words, it's a lot like Razorlame with notes as the icon instead of a sword Although I believe winlame bundles 3.93 not 3.90.3 , and the replacement package on rarewares didn't work for me

For those with Win98, it can be done with a proggie like ATM.

I see noone has listed Easylame.
Do you consider Razorlame and Easylame the same thing,
just with a different name?

EasyLAME is RazorLAME, but pre-configured with the different --alt-presets and the recommended LAME version. Certainly a good choice. http://easylame.audiohq.de/

Thanks CiTay.
I was curious because I used Razorlame,
but just switched to Easylame about a week ago.

RAZORLAME is cool, but 4 some reason, when I use it, my PC slows down
incredibly...

Edit: Perhaps I've set priority too high or smth...

I'm not certain about this, but I think all2lame starts a new lame.exe process for each song, which would mean that only the priority of the current process would be changed, and once it got to the next song it would start another lame.exe process with a priority of normal. So for 30 songs, each time it started encoding another song you'd have to manually set the priority to whatever you wanted it to be.


What's that?

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Seriously though, it's got a really clean and easy to use GUI and I've never heard anyone say they've had any problems with it. I suppose the only issue you'll have to consider is the one concerning tagging, which has already been mentioned.

i've been using razorlame for as long as i can remember... never had one problem out of it at all

it's da bomb lame frontend

i think a newer build is in the works too, not for sure about that though... u know how rumors are

ATM is a task manager proggie that runs in Win9x, which allows setting priorities for processes (and even individual threads), as well as killing processes and threads and viewing these as well -- among other interesting functions. A bit old by now, but the program works as well as it ever has.

http://atm.rm.it/

Edit -- the homepage is strange, can't figure out how to get past the front page. However, try a Google search on "ATM Another Task Manager" to find download locations.